This website is an extension of the book "Hemp for Victory: History and Qualities of the World's Most Useful Plant." [ISBN 0-9549939-0-X, London, Whitaker Publishing, 2006. Ordering information: info@whitakerpublishing.co.uk/www.whitakerpublishing.co.uk] On this site will be found excerpts from the book along with updates, posted in the aim of giving the hemp world the latest information on the growth of the hemp movement.

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Thursday, April 08, 2010

HEMP HOE DOWN

Rapid City event promoter Jeremy Briggs announced the scheduling of “Hemp Hoe Down 10” today.The event will be held, as it has for eight of its past nine years, at the Elkview Campground, north at I-90, Exit 37, east of Sturgis. Its dates are Thursday through Saturday, May 13-15.Briggs says, “For the tenth straight year the Hemp Hoe Down has been the only hemp advocacy gathering in South Dakota. I think that’s an odd thing to be able to say in a state that could profit enormously from the addition of hemp to the choices farmers have in choosing marketable crops.”According to Briggs, the Hemp Hoe Down typically features workshops or seminars in “sustainable” or “green” lifestyle and product choices. “But of course,” he says, “we also have offered, and will continue to offer a lineup of musical performers unchallenged for quality in South Dakota by anything aside from some Sturgis Rally venues.”The schedule for the concerts is:Thursday, May 15Dylan James (Folk Grass, Spearfish SD) 6-7pm Dylan will also cover band changeovers at at 9pm and MidniteMad Hats (Bumping' Hard Rock, Rapid City SD) 7-9pmVon Veeder Veld (Hard Rocking' Fusion, Rapid City SD) 9-Midnite Solution (Jam Jazz, Sioux Falls SD) Midnite-2amFriday, May 14Crazy Mountain Billies (Blue Grass, Rapid City SD) 5-6:30pmCarolyn Nicely (Mellifluous Singer, Los Angeles CA) 6:30-7:30pm Carolyn will also cover band changeovers at 9:30pm and 11:30pmLetta People (Bluesy Funk-Hop Rock, Rapid City SD) 7:30-9:30pmElephant Revival (Olde Time Blue Grass Harmony, Nederland CO) 9:30-11:30pmSolution, 11:30pm-2am